Re: [Sheflug] Poll

[Steve Brown <nospam [at] racalinst.co.uk>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:

> If anybody you sent mail to has quoted you and it ended up in an
> archive somewhere, then the spammers' 'bots can find it.  

I was just curious, that's all. I usually use time-limited email
addresses to counteract the ever-increasing amounts of spam, and the one
I mentioned was the *first* I've received on this addy.

> There are dozens of ways to harvest email addresses.

Sure, probably more than a dozen. I've only been on the 'net for 10
years so there's probably a few I haven't found yet ;o)

Steve
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